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One Nation Under a Groove: Rap Music and Its Roots

Traces the history of rap music to its origins in blues, Motown, soul, R&B, and reggae, chronicling its 1970s rise to popularity and citing how its development evolved from the centuries-old griot traditions of West Africa. (view table of contents)

By James Haskins

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Hardcover:

9780786804788 | Jump at the Sun, November 1, 2000, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Examines the origins and evolution of rap music, its African roots, and continuing popularity.

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9780786824144 | Jump at the Sun, November 1, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Examines the origins and evolution of rap music, its African roots, and continuing popularity.

Jesse Jackson: Civil Rights Activist

Presents the life, accomplishments, and goals of the civil rights activist and politician Jesse Jackson, from his childhood in North Carolina through his years in Chicago and Washington, D.C. (view table of contents)

By James Haskins

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9780766013902 | Enslow Pub Inc, August 1, 2000, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Presents the life, accomplishments, and goals of the civil rights activist and politician Jesse Jackson, from his childhood in North Carolina through his years in Chicago and Washington, D.

African American Musicians

Presents biographical profiles of African Americans, both legendary and less well-known, who have made significant contributions to music in the United States over the past 200 years. (view table of contents)

By James Haskins and Eleanora E. Tate

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9780471253563 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 29, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents biographical profiles of African Americans, both legendary and less well-known, who have made significant contributions to music in the United States over the past 200 years.

African American Teachers

Profiles African American educators, from colonial times to the present, and describes their struggles and accomplishments. (view table of contents)

By Clinton Cox and James Haskins

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9780471246497 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 22, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Profiles African American educators, from colonial times to the present, and describes their struggles and accomplishments.

Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History

This biography, enhanced by photos and prints, tells of the life and accomplishments of this celebrated Harvard graduate and founder of the 'Journal of Negro History.'

By Kathleen Benson, James Haskins and Melanie K. Reim (illustrator)

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9780761312642 | Millbrook Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: A biography of the son of former slaves who received a Ph.

Black Dance in America: A History Through It's People

Product Description: Surveys the history of black dance in America, from its beginnings with the ritual dances of African slaves, through tap and modern dance to break dancing. Includes brief biographies of influential dancers and companies.

By James Haskins

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Hardcover:

9780690046571, titled "Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People" | Ty Crowell Co, May 1, 1990, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Describing the rich heritage that Africans brought with them to North America, the author traces the history of Black dance in America, from the early slave dances, to jazz, to the twist, to break dancing

Paperback:

9781566491341 | Welcome Rain, February 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Surveys the history of black dance in America, from its beginnings with the ritual dances of African slaves, through tap and modern dance to break dancing.

9780064461214, titled "Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, January 1, 1992), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Describing the rich heritage that Africans brought with them to North America, the author traces the history of Black dance in America, from the early slave dances, to jazz, to the twist, to break dancing

Black Music in America: A History Through Its People

From the earliest slave songs and spirituals, through ragtime and the blues, to classic jazz, bop, soul, disco, and modern jazz, this book examines the history of black music

By James Haskins

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9781566491334 | Welcome Rain, February 1, 2000, cover price $12.95

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9780690044621 | Ty Crowell Co, April 1, 1987, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: From the earliest slave songs and spirituals, through ragtime and the blues, to classic jazz, bop, soul, disco, and modern jazz, this book examines the history of black music

African American Healers

Profiles over thirty notable African Americans in the health field, including Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor, Dr. Charles Drew, father of the blood bank, and young pioneering surgeon Ben Carson (view table of contents)

By Clinton Cox and James Haskins (editor)

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9780471246503 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 14, 1999, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Profiles over thirty notable African Americans in the health field, including Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor, Dr.

African American Women Writers

A collection of thirty biographies tells the stories of both famous and unsung poets, playwrights, journalists, and novelists whose talents and determination offer young readers encouragement and perspective, and includes photographs, a timeline, bibliography, and glossary. (view table of contents)

By James Haskins (editor) and Brenda Scott Wilkinson

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9780471175803 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 14, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Discusses the lives and work of such notable African American women authors as Phillis Wheatley, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Terry McMillan

The Geography of Hope: Black Exodus from the South After Reconstruction

A look at the experiences of black homesteaders in the 1870s chronicles how, tempted by the offer of freedom and land, they moved out of the South and to the American West.

By James Haskins

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9780761303237 | Twenty First Century Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $31.93 | About this edition: Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War

Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940

Uses the experiences of two individuals, Ada 'Bricktop' Smith and Joe Jones, to present the story of the Great Migration of Southern blacks to northern cities from the late 1800s to the years after World War I.

By Kathleen Benson and James Haskins

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9780761409700 | Benchmark Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $37.07 | About this edition: Uses the experiences of two individuals, Ada 'Bricktop' Smith and Joe Jones, to present the story of the Great Migration of Southern blacks to northern cities from the late 1800s to the years after World War I.

Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson

Product Description: (Robinson's) life story, as recounted by Haskins and Mitgang with complete cooperation from the dancer's family and friends, stands as a moving study in bravery and a melancholy portrait of thwarted possibilities.âBooklist (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James Haskins and N. R. Mitgang

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9780688072032 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 1990, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Access to personal papers, scrapbooks, and friends enhances the first full biography of the nation's most famous tap dancer, the charmer, gambler, and entertainer who rose through the color barrier to the top of his profession

Paperback:

9781566491136 | Welcome Rain, August 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: (Robinson's) life story, as recounted by Haskins and Mitgang with complete cooperation from the dancer's family and friends, stands as a moving study in bravery and a melancholy portrait of thwarted possibilities.

Bricktop

Product Description: Hers is the candid, high-spirited story of a scrappy redhead colored girl from West Virginia and Chicago who combined her unerring eye for talent and chich with a uniquely American brashness and an eminently European sophistication to become the toast of two continents. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bricktop (editor) and James Haskins

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9781566491143 | Welcome Rain, August 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Hers is the candid, high-spirited story of a scrappy redhead colored girl from West Virginia and Chicago who combined her unerring eye for talent and chich with a uniquely American brashness and an eminently European sophistication to become the toast of two continents.

Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders

Product Description: Award-winning author James Haskins profiles the lives and accomplishments of more than 100 remarkable African Americans who have made their mark in politics and government. Written in an absorbing, informative style, these profiles cover the period from 1810 to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James Haskins

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9781573561266 | Greenwood Pub Group, May 12, 1999, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: Award-winning author James Haskins profiles the lives and accomplishments of more than 100 remarkable African Americans who have made their mark in politics and government.

Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad

Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom

By James Haskins

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Paperback:

9780590454193 | Reissue edition (Scholastic, May 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom

School and Library:

9780590454186 | Scholastic, January 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom

Reinforced:

9780606161466 | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $13.90 | About this edition: Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom

9780606075602 | Demco Media, January 1, 1995, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom

Prebinding:

9780785755173 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom

Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World

Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including capture, branding, slave ship conditions, mutinies, and arrival in the Americas

By Kathleen Benson, Floyd Cooper (illustrator) and James Haskins

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9780688102586 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, January 1, 1999, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including capture, branding, slave ship conditions, mutinies, and arrival in the Americas

Library:

9780688102593 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, January 1, 1999, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including capture, branding, slave ship conditions, mutinies, and arrival in the Americas

From Afar to Zulu: A Dictionary of African Cultures

Describes thirty distinctive ethnic African tribes, from pre-Islamic days to the present, providing facts about their history, social structure, religion, traditions, environment, and daily life

By Joann Biondi and James Haskins

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9780802782908 | Walker & Co, January 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Describes thirty distinctive ethnic African tribes, from pre-Islamic days to the present, providing facts about their history, social structure, religion, traditions, environment, and daily life

Paperback:

9780802775504 | Walker & Co, October 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Describes thirty distinctive ethnic African tribes, from pre-Islamic days to the present, providing facts about their history, social structure, religion, traditions, environment, and daily life

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9780802782915 | Walker & Co, January 1, 1995, cover price $19.85 | About this edition: Describes thirty distinctive ethnic African tribes, from pre-Islamic days to the present, providing facts about their history, social structure, religion, traditions, environment, and daily life

Moaning Bones: African-American Ghost Stories

A floating woman pleads 'Find my child,' an empty rocking chair rocks back and forth, ghostly dancers waltz in a deserted mansion, and a mysterious 'thing' leads an orphan child to a jar of coins, in a collection of traditional African-American ghost stories.

By James Haskins and Felicia Marshall (illustrator)

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9780688160210 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, October 1, 1998, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as 'The Haunted Stateroom,''Black Tom,' and 'The Ghost in the Back Seat.

African American Military Heroes

A collection of the valiant and brave champions and protectors of America from the Revolutionary War to today includes such heroes as Peter Salem, Harriet Tubman, and Generals Benjamin O. Davis and Colin Powell. (view table of contents)

By James Haskins

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9780471145776 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 27, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents biographies of notable African Americans in the armed forces, including William Goyens, Lemuel Haynes, Austin Dabney, and Dorie Miller

African American Inventors

Profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times (view table of contents)

By James Haskins and Otha Richard Sullivan

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9780471148043 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 5, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times

African American Entrepreneurs

Profiles a variety of African American entrepreneurs, from the early years, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to modern times (view table of contents)

By James Haskins

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9780471145769 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 27, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Profiles a variety of African American entrepreneurs, from the early years, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to modern times

Sugar Ray Leonard

A biography of the welterweight champion tells how he became involved in boxing and recounts some of his most memorable fights

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9780688014360 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, October 1, 1982, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A biography of the welterweight champion tells how he became involved in boxing and recounts some of his most memorable fights

Paperback:

9780860517160 | New edition (Gardners Books, January 1, 1998), cover price $11.60

Black, Blue & Gray: African Americans in the Civil War

An informative book, complete with excerpts from letters and government documents as well as photographs, tells how abolitionist Frederick Douglass started the movement to end the exclusion of African Americans from fighting in the Civil War.

By James Haskins

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Hardcover:

9780689806551 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 1998, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An historical account of the role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War

Spike Lee: By Any Means Necessary

Examines the life and works of the filmmaker who has chosen to explore the many dimensions of the black American experience. (view table of contents)

By James Haskins

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Hardcover:

9780802784940 | Walker & Co, April 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Examines the life and works of the filmmaker who has chosen to explore the many dimensions of the black American experience.

Library:

9780802784964 | Walker & Co, April 1, 1997, cover price $16.85 | About this edition: Examines the life and works of the filmmaker who has chosen to explore the many dimensions of the black American experience.

Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

A biography of Bayard Rustin, a skillful organizer behind the scenes of the American civil rights movement whose ideas stongly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.

By James Haskins

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9780786801688 | Hyperion, February 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A biography of Bayard Rustin, a skillful organizer behind the scenes of the American civil rights movement whose ideas stongly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.

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9780786821402 | Hyperion, January 1, 1997, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A biography of Bayard Rustin, a skillful organizer behind the scenes of the American civil rights movement whose ideas stongly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.

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